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06-25-2019, 02:34 PM
Sir C

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You have no doubt read the hype around latest Scandi sensation Nicklas Natt och Dag - but don't let that put you off. His The Wolf and The Watchman is a triumph.

Full review: It's got plenty violence but no boobs.

Enjoy.
06-25-2019, 08:35 PM
7sisters

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Originally Posted by Sir C

You have no doubt read the hype around latest Scandi sensation Nicklas Natt och Dag - but don't let that put you off. His The Wolf and The Watchman is a triumph.

Full review: It's got plenty violence but no boobs.

Enjoy.

I'm just reading, Ben Macintyre - The Spy and the Traitor. Picked it up at the airport last week. I recall you enjoy the genre.
Very good KGB spy ****, and all that...Definitely recommend.
06-26-2019, 07:53 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by 7sisters

I'm just reading, Ben Macintyre - The Spy and the Traitor. Picked it up at the airport last week. I recall you enjoy the genre.
Very good KGB spy ****, and all that...Definitely recommend.

Read that last year. Amazing stuff. Gordievsky had some proper balls on him.
06-26-2019, 08:38 AM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by 7sisters

I'm just reading, Ben Macintyre - The Spy and the Traitor. Picked it up at the airport last week. I recall you enjoy the genre.
Very good KGB spy ****, and all that...Definitely recommend.

Listened to the audiobook a couple of weeks ago. Terrific stuff.

I love Ben.
06-26-2019, 08:40 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Sir C

Listened to the audiobook a couple of weeks ago. Terrific stuff.

I love Ben.

I don't normally approve of traitors - even when they're on the right side - but I have to say that old Oleg has my admiration.
06-26-2019, 09:01 AM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Burney

I don't normally approve of traitors - even when they're on the right side - but I have to say that old Oleg has my admiration.

The brass balls on that boy. :hehe:

The cars, the baby, the nappy... What a top tale.

You like your books a bit paddy, don't you? Are you a fan of Joseph O'Connor? I liked his Star of the Sea. Anyway, Shadowplay is rather fun. It's got thon Bram Stoker and Henry Irving in, for all love!

Also, I'm currently listening to Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain. Recommended.
06-26-2019, 09:07 AM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Sir C

The brass balls on that boy. :hehe:

The cars, the baby, the nappy... What a top tale.

You like your books a bit paddy, don't you? Are you a fan of Joseph O'Connor? I liked his Star of the Sea. Anyway, Shadowplay is rather fun. It's got thon Bram Stoker and Henry Irving in, for all love!

Also, I'm currently listening to Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain. Recommended.

It was the thing of going into the Ljubjanka knowing they were onto him that impressed me. :yikes:

I did like Star of the Sea (although it stole Wuthering Heights' narrative structure wholesale) and am wondering what to do with my remaining Audible Credit this month. I shall give it a whirl. Ta. :thumbup:

btw, if you're on the lookout for a new podcast, there's one with James Holland and Al Murray that discusses much WWII minutiae called 'We have ways of making you talk' (terrible title, I know) and is really quite fun, nerdy and interesting.
06-26-2019, 09:10 AM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Burney

It was the thing of going into the Ljubjanka knowing they were onto him that impressed me. :yikes:

I did like Star of the Sea (although it stole Wuthering Heights' narrative structure wholesale) and am wondering what to do with my remaining Audible Credit this month. I shall give it a whirl. Ta. :thumbup:

btw, if you're on the lookout for a new podcast, there's one with James Holland and Al Murray that discusses much WWII minutiae called 'We have ways of making you talk' (terrible title, I know) and is really quite fun, nerdy and interesting.

Nice, thank you, I will subscribe.

Another nice Audible recommendation I have for you is A Gentleman in Moscow... I've only listened to the first chapter but I liked it so much I'm saving it for the drive to 't Lakes next week.
06-26-2019, 02:17 PM
Herbert Augustus Chapman

Very well c, I shall delve further. But I warn you I am very discerning and if it is

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Originally Posted by Sir C

You have no doubt read the hype around latest Scandi sensation Nicklas Natt och Dag - but don't let that put you off. His The Wolf and The Watchman is a triumph.

Full review: It's got plenty violence but no boobs.

Enjoy.

anything less than sublime in both conception and execution you will be roundly ****ed off in front of the whole board.
06-26-2019, 02:24 PM
Sir C

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Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman

anything less than sublime in both conception and execution you will be roundly ****ed off in front of the whole board.

I have seen it compared to Iain Pears' An Instance of the Fingerpost, and whilst I don't believe it's quite up that high mark, it's not far off.
06-26-2019, 02:47 PM
Herbert Augustus Chapman

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Originally Posted by Sir C

I have seen it compared to Iain Pears' An Instance of the Fingerpost, and whilst I don't believe it's quite up that high mark, it's not far off.

Good Lord, a whole five pounds on kindle! I'm used to paying 99p for a Dickens or Wodehouse.

I shall report back.
06-26-2019, 03:13 PM
Ash

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Originally Posted by Herbert Augustus Chapman

Good Lord, a whole five pounds on kindle! I'm used to paying 99p for a Dickens or Wodehouse.

I shall report back.

99p for a Dickens? You've been ripped orf, my son. One used to be able to get the complete (illustrated) works of Dickens for £1.99. Though that was some years ago.
06-26-2019, 03:15 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Ash

99p for a Dickens? You've been ripped orf, my son. One used to be able to get the complete (illustrated) works of Dickens for £1.99. Though that was some years ago.

:nod: Being out of copyright means the Dickster's stuff is dirt cheap everywhere.
06-26-2019, 03:16 PM
Herbert Augustus Chapman

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Originally Posted by Ash

99p for a Dickens? You've been ripped orf, my son. One used to be able to get the complete (illustrated) works of Dickens for £1.99. Though that was some years ago.

Don't be absurd a. How can a Kindle have pictures?
06-26-2019, 03:18 PM
Herbert Augustus Chapman

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Originally Posted by Burney

:nod: Being out of copyright means the Dickster's stuff is dirt cheap everywhere.

well 99p must be considered dirt cheap even for a parsimonious tight-wad like you b.
06-26-2019, 03:26 PM
Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult

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Originally Posted by Burney

Read that last year. Amazing stuff. Gordievsky had some proper balls on him.

I generally like Macintyre in the Times, but as PE point out, he really should have removed all the errors about Michael Foot from the paperback edition. The fact that he hasn't makes me question how much other bull**** he's told me over the years. I've been reading since him since he was Paris correspondent.
06-26-2019, 03:37 PM
Burney

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Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult

I generally like Macintyre in the Times, but as PE point out, he really should have removed all the errors about Michael Foot from the paperback edition. The fact that he hasn't makes me question how much other bull**** he's told me over the years. I've been reading since him since he was Paris correspondent.

What errors? Foot was listed by the KGB as an agent. :shrug:

Gordievsky was so effective precisely because his intelligence was so accurate. Why would you think it would be inaccurate in this instance?

Just because he won a libel case doesn't mean he wasn't. Liberace won a libel case over suggestions he was a bummer. Maxwell won umpteen libel cases over suggestions he was a crook. Now of course it could be the case that the KGB's London station were simply making it up to look good, but there's no archive evidence either way.